Think for a moment of a father’s footprints. That father is about his walk, and his shoes are leaving one print after another trailing out behind him. Guess who is coming along a bit behind him: his young boy. That adult gait is just a bit too far for the youngster to easily match his stride.
Can you see him concentrating, balancing, maybe even hoping or jumping from print to print? Oops, the small foot just went across the edge of dad’s print. A tiny miss, but with little consternation, he finds the next imprint and off to that one he goes. Oops, a miss and a fall. He rolls to his knees and pushes himself up again. By now dad is a ways off so he runs to catch up, finds some more prints, and gets right back at it.
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